famke janssen

famke janssen

Famke Janssen

Biography of Famke Janssen

Famke Janssen was born on November 5, 1964 in Amstelveen. She is a Dutch actress, film director, film producer, screenwriter and a former model.

Famke Janssen has two sisters, director Antoinette Beumer and actress Marjolein Beumer. In 1984 she moved to New York City, where she studied literature at Columbia University. She then worked successfully as a photo model for the agency Elite Model Management and at the same time took acting lessons. She then moved to Los Angeles to begin her acting career.

First, Janssen took on guest roles in television series such as Starship Enterprise - The Next Generation and Melrose Place. She had her first film role in the 1992 drama film Fathers and Sons alongside Jeff Goldblum. Janssen's breakthrough role was as the killer Xenia Onatopp in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye.

The year 2000 marked a new high point in her career, when she demonstrated her acting versatility with the romantic comedy Love & Sex and established herself as a box-office star with her role in the superhero film series X-Men. She turned down an offer to play the female lead in the 2003 film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. In the second and sixth seasons of the US series Nip/Tuck she played the role of transsexual counselor Ava Moore. In March 2012, she landed a role in the 2013 sci-fi thriller series Hemlock Grove. More film and television appearances followed. Her work includes around 60 productions.

Janssen is fluent in English, Dutch and French and speaks some German. She was married to director and screenwriter Tod Williams from 1995 to 2000.

Filmography

1992 Fathers & Sons

1994 Relentless IV: Ashes to Ashes

1995 Lord of Illusions

1995 GoldenEye

1996 Dead Girl

1997 City of Industry

1998 Monument Ave.

1998 The Gingerbread Man

1998 Deep Rising

1998 RPM

1998 Rounders

1998 Celebrity

1998 The Adventures of Sebastian Cole

1998 The Faculty

1999 House on Haunted Hill

2000 Love & Sex

2000 Circus

2000 X-Men

2001 Made

2001 Don't Say a Word

2002 I Spy

2003 X2

2004 Eulogy

2005 Hide and Seek

2006 X-Men: The Last Stand

2006 The Treatment

2007 The Ten

2007 Turn the River

2008 The Wackness

2008 Taken

2008 100 Feet

2010 The Chameleon

2011 Down the Shore

2012 Taken 2

2013 Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

2013 The Wolverine

2013 The Being Experience

2014 A Fighting Man

2014 Unity

2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past

2014 Taken 3

2015 Jack of the Red Hearts

2017 The Show

2017 All I Wish

2017 Once Upon a Time in Venice

2018 Status Update

2018 Bayou Caviar

2018 Asher Sophie

2019 The Poison Rose

2019 Primal

2020 The Postcard Killings

2020 Endless

2021 The Vault

2021 Dangerous

2022 Redeeming Love


Television

1992 Star Trek: The Next Generation

1994 Melrose Place

1994 Model by Day

1994 The Untouchables

2000 Ally McBeal

2004 Nip/Tuck

2007 Winters

2008 Puppy Love

2009 The Farm

2013 Hemlock Grove

2015 How to Get Away with Murder

2015 SuperMansion

2016 Robot Chicken

2016– The Blacklist

2017 The Blacklist: Redemption

2019 When They See Us

2019 The Capture


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